I believe I found the article that talks about modular DID (Clinical Presentations of Multiple Personality Disorder by Richard P. Kluft), and it also has a bunch of other presentations such as:
"The overt and readily observable behavior of such patients fulfills diagnostic criteria for MPD on an ongoing basis for periods of months or years, or even for a lifetime."
frequent changes of executive control (switches) cause easily observable memory gaps and altered behavior
includes "amnesia for amnesia" (forgetting that you forgot)
"patients whose alters are generally inactive but are triggered to emerge infrequently by intercurrent stressors, many of which are analogous to, symbolic of, or trigger memories of childhood traumata."
examples include patients who become overt when their children reach the age(s) at which they were traumatized, or when their abusers become ill or die
covert until the patient experiences an overwhelming contemporary event
Extremely Complex or Polyfragmented DID
"occurs when there is a wide variety of alter personalities and their comings and goings are so frequent and/or ephemeral that it is hard to discern the outline of the MPD behind the rapidly fluctuating and switching manifestations."
subjective experiences of confused and fluctuating identity and memory is an indicator
Epochal or Sequential DID
"occurs when switches are rare—the newly emergent alter simply takes over for a long period, and the others go dormant."
often missed, and can be suspected in patients with dense amnesia for periods of their adult life
"a group of very similar alters are largely in control, and/or the alters try to pass as one."
only overt manifestation may be an unevenness of memory and skills, a fluctuating level of function, and inconsistency that is striking in view of the patient's apparent strengths
can be seen as puzzling due to the apparent lack of alternating personalities
confusing for its apparent lack of amnesia (patients with this presentation would be diagnosed with DDNOS in the DSM-IV)
"Such cases present with apparent alters that know about one another and do not demonstrate time loss or memory gaps. Usually there is amnesia, but it is covered over or relates to events long past, and becomes apparent only in therapy."
"occurs when the alter that is most evident or the sole manifestation presents itself as a demon or devil."
Reincarnation/Mediumistic DID
"presentations in which the presenting alters are egosyntonic within certain unique belief systems but are found to overlie more typical alters."
many patients are quite high-functioning
"occurs when the alters are aware of one another, and the isomorphic presentation is consciously adapted to pass as one."
closely related to Atypical DID
"the alters, although classic, never emerge except when the host is alone, and unlike the private form, the host is unaware of the alters."
Ostensible Imaginary Companionship DID
"occurs when a patient is found to have an apparent adult version of imaginary companionship with an egosyntonic entity that is coconscious and copresent and engages in friendly and supportive dialog with an otherwise socially constricted host. Examination reveals, however, that this entity does assume executive control, and that (usually) other entities are present as well. "
the truly classic form of DID
may be subdivided roughly into Puppeteering (hapless or accepting), Phenocopy, Somatoform, and Orphan symptom varieties
Puppeteering or Passive-Influence Dominated DID
"occur when the host is dominated by alters that rarely emerge. If the host is unaware of what is transpiring, he or she feels him or herself the hapless victim of influences that force behavior in ways not willed or chosen."
"most important of the covert forms. It occurs when the final common vector of the alters' influences create phenomena that are similar to the manifestations of other mental disorders, or when the urge of traumatic materials overwhelms the patient's ego strength."
should be considered when a patient who appears to have another mental disorder fails to improve with the application of a therapy appropriate for that condition or if the condition is associated with a prolonged therapy or a poor prognosis."
a useful approach to suspected phenocopy presentations would involve the DES and an interview
patients with high scores on both the DES and Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) are much more likely to have DID than any other condition.
"occur[s] when the discomfort associated with a painful event is reexperienced, with no conscious connection between the symptom and the historical event."
closely related to all covert categories
"Dissociating patients are prone to divide their painful experiences along the behavior, affect, sensation, and knowledge (BASK) dimensions described by Braun. The intrusion of any such element into the ongoing mental life of a patient should initiate the search for a DD—an unwilling motor act, the unexplained intrusion of a strong affect, a sensation for which no medical cause can be found, or intrusive traumatic imagery."
"In this form the switch process is occurring so frequently and/or rapidly that it rather than amnesia or the clear emergence of alters dominates. The patient appears bewildered, confused, and forgetful."
most common in extremely complex DID with a large number of alters
patient may be thought to have an affective disorder, psychosis, or a seizure disorder
"a single helper alter that rarely emerges persists and creates a series of short-lived alters that function briefly and cease to exist. The helper may speak to the host inwardly to advise on how to frustrate inquiries."
quite uncommon but most intrusive
"occurring when usually autonomous ego functions become personified and split and when personalities are reconfigured from their elements when mobilized. More standard alters may or may not be present. Such patients have an "MPD feel" about them, but once one has talked to qn apparent alter one may appreciate its vagueness and may never encounter it in exactly the same way again."
"The few patients in whom this form has been found have been seriously abused, brilliant, and creative... There are clear analogies between this form of dissociative defense and computer functioning, and it may well be that this form will be seen with increasing frequency in the future. In all cases thus far seen, the common factors have been stellar brilliance, bizarre symptoms, and an inconsistency in the manifestations of the apparent alters, who appear generally similar on repeated encounters, but never quite the same."
"A personality plays out what has been learned of the other alters as deliberately enacted roles, and then informs the interviewer that he or she is feigning MPD. In another form, the patient immediately follows up apparent alter behavior with statements that the patient is aware of what has occurred and has willfully generated it. With further assessment, it is discovered that the patient is upset about the possibility that the diagnosis is MPD, and is attempting to preempt the chance of receiving the diagnosis."
Pseudo-False Positive DID
quite common in the 1970s and early 1980s, but became more rare as DID became more widely recognized
"The patient makes a questionable presentation that is clearly based on a well-known case or is so flamboyant as to appear contrived. The presentation is dropped as soon as the patient appreciates that the clinician is competent, caring, and interested in him or her as a distinct human being rather than as a curiosity."
